Texas has one of the most restrictive medical marijuana laws in the country, with sales allowed only by prescription for a handful of conditions. That hasn’t stopped Lukas Gilkey, chief
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F.D.A. Expert Panel Endorses Johnson & Johnson’s Vaccine
With this last hurdle cleared, formal authorization of the one-dose vaccine is expected on Saturday and distribution within days. By Carl Zimmer and Noah Weiland Johnson & Johnson’s Covid-19 vaccine
How many people have died from COVID in Colorado?
More than a year after the first cases of the novel coronavirus reached the U.S., in excess of 500,000 Americans have died — more than the number of Americans killed
A New Coronavirus Variant Is Spreading in New York, Researchers Report
The variant contains a mutation thought to help the virus dodge the immune system, scientists said. By Apoorva Mandavilli A new form of the coronavirus is spreading rapidly in New
COVID-19 cases, hospitalizations are still dropping. Can Colorado keep it up until enough are vaccinated?
New COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations continue to fall in Colorado, suggesting the state might get out of the pandemic without another wave of death if people can keep up precautions
Vaccines Adapted for Variants Will Not Need Lengthy Testing, F.D.A. Says
The agency’s new guidance will speed the development of vaccines that protect against more contagious variants of the coronavirus. By Noah Weiland, Katie Thomas and Carl Zimmer The Food and Drug
Bernard Lown, Inventive Heart Doctor and Antiwar Activist, Dies at 99
Dr. Bernard Lown, the Harvard cardiologist who invented the first effective heart defibrillator and was one of a group of co-founders of an international organization that won the 1985 Nobel
Average U.S. coronavirus cases dip below 100K for 1st time in months
ATLANTA — Average daily new coronavirus cases in the United States dipped below 100,000 in recent days for the first time in months, but experts cautioned Sunday that infections remain
Broad Coalition of Health Industry Groups Calls for Obamacare Expansion
In an unusual display of unity, groups representing nearly all the major players in the American health care system — hospitals, doctors, insurance companies and employers — are joining forces
Colorado’s COVID-19 metrics keep improving as experts wait to see impacts of new variants, vaccination efforts
Colorado continues to make progress in reducing new cases and hospitalizations from COVID-19, but whether that continues will depend on what people to do — and how widely more-contagious versions